[mythtv-users] ECS Liva for frontend - brief report

Karl Newman siliconfiend at gmail.com
Sat Dec 20 02:36:39 UTC 2014


On Sun, Dec 14, 2014 at 8:48 PM, Karl Newman <newmank1 at asme.org> wrote:
>
> On Sun, Dec 14, 2014 at 5:29 PM, Roger Heflin <rogerheflin at gmail.com>
> wrote:
>>
>> I had to add into /etc/dracut.conf this like so dracut created the
>> initramfs with the mmc driver in it:
>>
>> add_drivers+="mmc_core sdhci_acpi sdhci mmc_block"
>>
>> By default on fedora 20 it did not include the drivers for it so
>> failed to boot.   Others have indicated that with updated fedora 20 it
>> does include the correct modules, but that would also mean that it may
>> not work on other distributions under certain conditions.
>>
>> And I had to modify the usb stuff on 3.16.6 to get the mce remote
>> control to work, the specific mce remote receiver I had did not work
>> without the patch I found that is not yet included in 3.17 either.
>> Otherwise it is found, but it never correctly gets the keypresses from
>> the remote.
>>
>> On Sun, Dec 14, 2014 at 6:48 PM, Rich Freeman
>> <r-mythtv at thefreemanclan.net> wrote:
>> > On Sun, Dec 14, 2014 at 7:37 PM, Karl Newman <newmank1 at asme.org> wrote:
>> >
>> >>
>> >> Thanks, I've been looking at that page. What does your partition table
>> look
>> >> like? My EFI boot partition ended up as only 2 MiB (since I followed
>> the
>> >> Gentoo install handbook), and according to what I'm reading an EFI
>> partition
>> >> should be between 100-300 MiB.
>> >
>> > First, the standard handbook still is BIOS-only - it should certainly
>> > be updated and hopefully once it is migrated to the Wiki that will
>> > happen soon.
>> >
>> > Second, the 2MB partition is NOT your ext2 boot partition even if you
>> > are using BIOS.  That is just extra room for grub to use.  The boot
>> > partition in the handbook is 128M, which still seems a bit tight these
>> > days.
>> >
>> > Third, none of that applies to you since you're using EFI.  The most
>> > likely problem you're having besides too little space is that your
>> > boot partition has to be FAT32.
>> >
>> > --
>> > Rich
>>
>
> Thanks, Rich, I think that was the major problem. I was able to use
> gparted (a great tool; my first time using it) to move my partitions around
> and make partition 1 (grub boot) 128 MB. I also changed the flags to
> boot,efs (gdisk EF00; was bios_boot, gdisk EF02). After those changes, and
> actually being able to format it FAT32 (it was FAT12 before due to the
> small size), I finally get it to be recognized by the BIOS. I think this
> BIOS only supports EFI, not legacy MBR type booting. Now I just have to get
> the right mmc drivers into the kernel or create an initrd (I was trying to
> keep it simple). And Roger, thanks for the notes on the specific modules
> and also about the MCE remote, since I have one of those coming too. Once I
> get it successfully booting on its own that will be a major step and I can
> put the clunky monitor away and do the rest of the setup via ssh. By the
> way, I found some nice notes from Intel on this very system here: http://www.intel.com/content/dam/www/public/us/en/documents/application-notes/atom-e38xx-n2xx-bay-trail-ubuntu-setup-app-note.pdf
>
> The notes are about setting up Ubuntu, but they have some useful details
> about setting up the graphics and WiFi. Bluetooth is apparently not yet
> supported. Looks like VAAPI should work, so that will reduce the CPU load.
>
> Karl
>
> Okay, I wrote up my install notes for Gentoo on this system. Here's the
link: http://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic-p-7670034.html By the way, Rich,
the install went mostly smoothly, but I had to manually emerge xorg-server.
Maybe that should be an RDEPEND for mythtv?

Karl
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